The Make Dave Money Project is a collection of smaller various projects that are either passive or unscheduled part time.
These projects include:
- An Automated Crypto Trading Project
I learned about scripting for automation while working at Waukesha County. I thought it might be fun to automate trading.- I designed and created a system that would buy and sell crypto currencies based on a price predictions.
- Web scraping price values from websites to by API call limits
- Create 7 day predictions and update prediction tables
- Buy or sell automatically based on predictions
- Test past decisions against past data to improve trading practices
- I designed and created a system that would buy and sell crypto currencies based on a price predictions.
- Violin Repair and Resale
How did this happen? I wanted to learn how to play violin. I found some cheap violins on an auction website. I bid on a few and lost the auctions. I then bid on many and won 14 auctions. I started fixing the extra violins to sell them, sold them, and discovered that I liked doing it.- I source distressed violins in need of repair, repair supplies, and missing items.
- I perform repairs such as post setting, revarnishing, and bridge carving.
- I sell the violins on various online seller platforms.
- Electronics Repair and Resale
I succeeded with violins and I have a degree in electronics engineering. I have experience repairing consumer electronics and the toys of my children. I thought I would try electronics as well.- I source distressed electronics that I am able to repair.
- I perform repairs such as testing, repairing circuit boards, buying replacement parts, and soldering.
- I sell the items on various online seller platforms.
- YouTube Channel – Davesplains
While I am trying to do all of this, why not try to earn some ad revenue?- I become a subject matter expert and create videos of my learning journey.
- Gardening
- Electronics
- Data Science
- Business Intelligence Development
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Violin Repair
- I become a subject matter expert and create videos of my learning journey.
- Fiverr
Why not try it? Well, I am most contacted by people who charge ridiculously low amounts of money for jobs and offer a tenth of that to me to do the actual work.- This has not been very successful
- Fluid Web Concepts – Contracting
I used my senior project to get free labor for a non-profit organization who trained service dogs for veterans. I then started “Fluid Web Concepts LLC” to continue supporting the organization after the semester ended. I then got more clients, but not enough.
The point of these are largely to have self financing hobbies as well as experiments.